I didn’t realize that QuickTime somewhat had this feature when we were doing our training. When I was designing our distance learning solution overnight, I knew I wanted a way for teachers to record themselves and share their screens easily.
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In using it, even for just screen recording, I realized that Apple could learn a lot about how to evolve QuickTime in the future to better address distance learning. One of our critical applications during this process was Zoom for Mac.
Although you cant blame them if Apple were funding this effort, which is quite common in the CAD business.One of the significant changes in my life over the past few months was building a distance learning solution for my school as we dealt with the effects of COVID–19. I would be really worried if Autodesk actually takes this ‘grass roots movement’ seriously and commits actual dollars to port its products to Mac. This does not mean CAD ISVs have to spend valuable resources on porting their products to the Mac platform. Sure they are entitled to their warped sense of value. They don’t even acknowledge that the design decisions made by the sharpest minds in Cupertino is not always the best for the end-user, even if it is best for Apples bottom line.
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Never mind that the Android phone outsells iPhone today.
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Never mind that the lowly PC sells 20 to 1 to Macs. I have talked to many AA people and what I find consistent in their raving about ‘Apple this’ or ‘Apple that’ is their blind belief that they are indeed getting real value for the money they mindlessly fork over to Apple for good-looking but low-performing products. You have to love the irony that the person taking over from the fired executive is the guy who is incharge of the Macintosh hardware engineering. See Īs is customary, bad business decisions by high-level executives has consequences. Never mind that Steve Jobs himself had overseen and approved every aspect of the product design & launch and has much culpability in this fiasco. The Apple executive in-charge of the iPhone has quit, maybe even forced out, the fall-guy for the sloppy design. (I could paste the droplist on the dialog box in a paint program, but now we're talking four extra steps for no good reason.) (WinSnap solves this problem by freezing the screen and the cursor.) In OS X, I can grab either the droplist or the dialog box, but not both.
I have not solved this problem: grab a droplist and its dialog box - optionally with or without the cursor. For now, I have settled on the free InstantShot. Over on the Mac, I tried a half-dozen programs, but found none of them up to the quality and transparent operation of WinSnap. For doing screen grabs on Windows, I use WinSnap, which adds sufficient functions to Windows' plain ol' PrtSc button that I was happy to pay $25. I finally decided on (and paid for) OmniGraffle Professional. Visio is not available for Mac, and so I tried out a couple of substitutes. For creating annotated diagrams in my books on my Windows 7 computer, I use Visio 2000(!). Here are two substitutes that I found that are pretty good: I should add that I have found solutions, too, such as remapping the keyboard, finding utility programs, and so on. Readers are submitting solutions to the problems I found with the MacBook and its OS X software.